Company Announcements

In February, Attivio announced an expanded relationship with PerkinElmer, making PerkinElmer the exclusive reseller of Attivio solutions in the life science market.

In March, Labworks announced its formation. The company consists of PerkinElmer’s former Labworks LIMS business, which was acquired by employees.

In February, Accelerated Technology Laboratories signed a reseller agreement with Soft Products for East Africa.

VentureBeat.com reported in March that Cloudera, a big data software firm, has acquired Sense, which provides cloud services enabling scientific collaborations.

Dassault Systèms and the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) entered into a joint agreement to accelerate clinical research programs by deploying a virtual collaborative platform.

Product Introductions

IDBS launched in January E-Workbook Connect, a secure portal for organizations and their research partners.

In March, IDBS released the E-Workbook Inventory module for streamlining lab inventory management.

In February, Elemental Machines introduced the EM Suite, a set of tools that measures the leading sources of experimental variability, such as temperature, humidity, vibration, light and instrumentation. It consists of Elemental Insights, a web-based software for real-time visualizations and dashboards; Elements, a network of distributed intelligent sensors; and Elemental Alerts text and email notifications.

Certara released the Phoenix Technology Services for its Phoenix platform, which manages, analyzes and reports pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and toxicokinetic data. They consist of Workflow Template Services, Plugin Services, Repository Services and Validation Services.

Zealand and BioSolveIT announced the development of a new software, PepSee, combining their respective therapeutic peptide–design and –development resources, and chemical informatics software. PepSee combines visual computational peptide modeling, design and modality prediction capabilities with biological and physio-chemical data.

In March, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Applied Biosystems Coverage Software, designed to centralize all forensic, paternity and kinship data by integrating data management, analysis and interpretation.

Apple released in March updates, designed by 23andMe, to its open source ResearchKit framework, allowing study participants to contribute their genetic data to medical research studies on postpartum depression, cardiovascular disease and asthma.

Genedata launched Profiler 10.0, featuring new triple layer data security and greater patient privacy. Profiler integrates and federates omics and phenotypic data.